How Jesus & Yoko Ono Helped Dennis Quaid After a Nervous Breakdown | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 225

all right Glenn you know I've been a fan of yours since uh CNN freely today we're joined by actor Dennis Quaid a man that not only brings Ronald Reagan to life on the Silver Screen in his new film Reagan tear down this wall but who also shares a personal journey of restoration you know when I found myself in bad situations it was it was all my own fault we talk about everything from cocaine it's fun then it's fun with problems and then it's it's just problems to Christ and I came to realize what a personal relationship with Jesus Jesus Christ is all about but as we shoot the breeze here at my Ranch an old homestad brought back to life from the dust and Echoes of the past we're not just discussing a film we're pondering whether the restoration Reagan believed in can still happen today it was m in America Reagan once told us a time of renewal hope and boundless opportunity is it mourning in America now or are we just mourning for America mourning for a spirit a people and a leadership that once defined us but now seems like a distant memory the love of country that he had and all of that seems to be fading in popular culture communism is on the rise inside our country as well as all around the world and it seems like we have to fight it all over again well I think that's America are we just playing out a beautiful but ultimately feal Melody on a piano hoping the notes will somehow carry us back to a time that's long gone and speaking of pianos Dennis Quaid always the Entertainer couldn't resist sitting down at a piano we have here and treating us to an impromptu performance it was a moment that brought a smile a bit of light in a conversation that at times feels like we're searching for something that might never be found Again The Best Is Yet To Come Reagan once said but is it or are we as Americans simply trying to find our way back to something we've lost forever this is a special episode of The Glen Beck podcast a day at the ranch with Dennis qua ready yes sir okay all right Glenn you know I've been a fan of yours since uh CNN freely the war on Christmas is only been getting worse first it was the mangers then it was the trees and then the word itself yeah that is crazy yeah I never think of people like you actually I don't know I you don't think of people like you doing normal stuff like watching TV yeah yeah or the dudes supposed to be or whatever yeah yeah yeah yeah I was like what you you were like the brand new voice on CNN when you came on there and I'm sure you had a radio show going on before that right and uh but it was um it was uh yeah watched you religiously actually and then all of a sudden you disappeared yeah just like that yeah uh it was funny um Clint Ewood who I've he's on my bucket list and I don't think I'm ever going to get that one checked off he came into CNN on the day I was gone and they had a poster of me and he was walking with Larry King's people yeah and he just stopped that guy I like that guy yeah he's so great yeah nobody ever talked like you yeah that was kind of about the time when you left that really kind of pretty much coincided with this sort of real break I mean there had been yeah there had been the anyway but like conservatives and liberals really lined up after that it was kind of like yeah prisoner exchange or something I know and I really I mean I tried to use so much humor in the show and I really thought people would have a sense of humor common sense is what you done yeah so watched your movie love it thank you absolutely love it yeah how frightening was it to take on Reagan it was the scariest uh role of my life really I it's now my favorite movie that I've ever done uh before that was the right stuff but I judge my movies by the time that I had while I was making them it's a personal experience for me you know so after 40 years Reagan is now my favorite but when they asked me to do it I didn't say yes and I didn't say no and you know this fear went up my spine cuz Reagan was my favorite President I had voted for Jimmy Carter in 76 we all make a mistake yes but um you know at the time he was an outsider was post Watergate and all that you know and uh what that was going to to bring to Washington which didn't get brought R was my favorite President I voted for him and I came home and uh I had a roommate at the time back in 1980 he said who did you vote for I said Reagan and he said you were kicked out of the hippies so I had to turn in my card and everything it was that was but uh KCK out of so uh you know I I I really so admired him and he won the Cold War and uh he was my dad's favorite President too my dad had been talking about Ronald Reagan for president since back like' 68 64 he was fantastic my first memory of Reagan outside of him being the guy who sold Baro soap Death Valley days was uh you being in the car with my dad going down to galvaston from Houston which is where I'm from and uh Reagan was giving the speech the on the radio yeah day of choosing yeah day of time of choosing yeah time of choos and uh and my dad was like on the dashboard you was just like you like go Ronnie and stuff and uh that was my first memory of him as a political figure where then is the road to peace well it's a simple answer after all you and I have the courage to say to our enemies there is a price we will not pay there is a point Beyond which they must not Advance inspiring yeah it really is an incredible speech yeah it is and timely still today that was my first awareness of him as a political figure and uh um so but you know he was to take the role like I said I had you know went up my spine because he's like Muhammad Ali is one of the yeah yeah probably one of the most recognized people all over the world period Trump has such an opinion about him and uh I didn't want to do like an impersonation of him he was my I mean he's you know probably my biggest hero uh in a way what what is it about him that he won the Cold War we grew up getting under our desk at schooli you know they were going to drop the bomb I mean it was going to happen and it came so close the Cuban Missile Crisis you know we lived in houon and we were in that Circle that they had where you know those yeah missiles could reach and you know we were Space City of course they were going to hit us and uh we got kept home from school for that you know and and nobody been able to make any uh uh progress with that until Reagan at the time everybody you know the left everybody to the left everyone is a monster and you know yeah he was called the warmonger you know he was going to get us into a war for sure but you know all we'd done with the Soviets was appease I know Kennedy you know and kusf had you know they were communicating and that was I thought that was handled well for the time that it was going to happen because it was going to happen but then uh you know at the time that Reagan entered office he was very much afraid that it was going to happen again and uh that it was predestined to happen in a way the Soviets under Carter really built their military way up uh Carter was you know I thought he I thought he did a great job in the Middle East to bring Egypt and Israel together and uh but you know we gave away the B1 bomber we just kept conceding stuff to him and it it you know the more that we gave away the more I think they just kind of laughed at us and we're As Americans I think Jimmy Carter uh the Jimmy Carter Administration exemplified the way the American people are in their heart that we we're peaceful at at our heart we want to live in harmony with the rest of the world in allies friendships and uh but that's not the way the rest of the world is I know the rest of the world didn't grow up like we grew up they grew up like in the middle in the in the Middle East you know and uh they're they are a product like we're a product of the way we grew up yeah and uh we don't have a chance against brutes like that we do if you're if we have somebody like Reagan Reagan was I always wanted you know those uh those old westerns where the cowboy kind of has a Twitchy eye and you're like I don't know he might just kill us all right now or we might be having a you know a party in an hour yeah uh that's what Reagan was rean Reagan had that eye to where he was fun he could be your best friend but when he said something you knew he meant it uh and you were like he at least 80% yeah yeah yeah you know it he was a guy who you you really thought he just might do it even the people in our own country well the Soviet thought yes you know um I love well but why do you think that the Iran hostage just released 20 minutes after he took office yeah I I I love the way that the movie portrays him and gorbachov and and I know a lot of people that were in the room at the time with all of this stuff and you you nailed it um the story is accurate the way it was told well we made sure about that I mean the only non-historical fact is that my dog peaches is the family dog in the movie have a bulldog but that's that's about where it ends so I mean even down to like his and ny's relationship which is so Central to the story it's a love story as as well so let me ask you because this is one thing I thought about the movie I don't know if people let's say my son's age 18 years old 19 years old is going to be able to relate to their relationship because that is so odd for today's society with for the consuming Society you know what I mean you don't see that kind of ear and that was real yeah it was it was really real right they were like that but it seems so unrealistic in today's world well you know know even back in the 60s it was kind of unreal uh unrealistic in a way you know because 50% of marriages were still breaking up and they had in fact even even Reagan was you know divorced he was married to Jane weinman yeah yeah and uh in fact I think he was our first divorc president uh in fact but they had a special thing and I disagree with you about that cuz I'm married to the like the greatest woman in the world now I am too you know and I've I've been you know I've been a dog into relationships before too but I uh you know it's uh it's it's great to be in one that uh yeah I agree that I but people don't see that they don't see that anymore they might see it in their personal lives or everything but in culture that is not the the no the image no but and it should be yeah well we don't have uh the culture has changed so much yeah and right it's a consumer culture where everybody wants everything right now yeah but just I don't know you go out into the middle of the country and I see a lot of really great examples of relationships that uh I I got this for my wife's my wife and I our anniversary written by Reagan it's a quote from from Thomas Jefferson Harmony is the I should be able to read my own writing yeah hary is the married state right yeah married state with a very first object to be aimed at is harmony harmony in the marriage uh Harmony in the marriage state is the very first object to be aimed at aimed at um uh Happiness by the gosh I know I can't I don't have my glasses we're both so horrible we got uh Happiness by the domestic uh something okay figure no we're into this now we're going to finish Too Deep by the by the domestic uh uh pressure Pursuit Pursuit yes is the first Boon of Heaven yeah ain't it great yes you know he he wrote her he wrote her every day every day day a love he wrote this for her this was was in the hospital assassination I know he gave this to her they were having dinner with Prince Charles and Lady Diana oh really and on on their anniversary and he slipped it across the table to wow it's but they did right and so have you read what is it love you Ronnie yeah that's so great yeah so great and Penelope Anne Miller I mean you saw movie she's just channeling yeah uh ncy and it incredible how many how many people love puppies right they're sweet they're 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best gift today just style pound 250 say the keyword baby it's pound 250 keyword baby or go to pre-born do.com Glen it's preborn do.com so when you I mean you came over and you just hit the Steinway before we yeah before we started you were taught by Jerry Lee Lewis amazing um when you play a character like this and you not a character but a real person and you're really trying to nail them you have to have a relationship with them even if they're dead you have a relationship with them well it gets down to the point for me what makes acting so fascinating is the psychology of it what makes people tick and who are they and that's what I that's what I you know we were starting to talk about uh when I was offered Reagan I didn't turn it down but I didn't say yes because I didn't want to do an impersonation and then uh I didn't want to do a hero worship thing it it was about it's about playing that person from their point of view in order to do that is to find out what makes them take it I feel like I have a responsibility to do that and um there was a part of Reagan in my research of it of people who knew him that there was kind of the great communicator there was this unreachable very private place uh in him that I think even Nancy felt to a certain extent although she probably knew him the best and I think that's where Reagan resided I think um I think it was his relationship with God I think it was his most private thoughts and probably a a shield of from the people around him because he had so many people always you know uh around him at least in his political career but I think this also went back to his childhood um where he could have that private place and it's almost um Japanese and that you know that what they talk about having the privacy in the midst of of uh so much going on uh you know I think part that is what made him a great communicator but getting to that um is what I needed to get to because I knew it was going to be really judged and stuff and so I I read several biographies and but I went to the Reagan Ranch I got invited up there that's and that is was the Western white house that's where they lived he bought that back after uh being governor of California do you have any idea what I when I saw that scene I thought good Heavens that at that time how much did they pay for that yeah oh I'm sure I'm sure it was at the top of the hill too you know there's not a stream going through it but uh so I went there and a group of friends bought it uh after it passing and they kept it exactly as it was I mean they're closer in the closet you it's like you feel that they're going to come back any moment but I went through the first you go up five miles of the worst Road in California to get to this place there's a lot of bad roads in California yeah this one's bad and uh went through the gate and you come out and you see the place in the house in the in the field and the fences in the pond and I got Reagan right there you can feel him I realized that he was a humble man he was not a rich man and uh you know go into the house they had a king-size bed but it was two single beds that were zip tied together oh my God all the appliances are GE he used to be the SP for G right and uh it's the house itself is maybe 1,00 Square ft you know 1100 square ft yeah and uh you could feel that he really did do all the work around that place and uh I say that's when I that's when I said yes to the role was after that trip after that I I think that's what I liked about Reagan he he was just real he he worked uh he could fit in on anything but he seemed more at home at the ranch and you know it just you see these pictures of him and he's I don't know he's just he's almost the maror Man without the cigarettes he really was you know he was like John Wayne yeah yeah yeah only you know in his movie career know that role was taken by by John Wayne but I think he maybe studied John Wayne's walk a little because never they walked a little bit like the same you know they were all taught how to walk and talk and everything when he got when they got to Hollywood in the mid-30s and that was another interesting thing about Reagan was that I I I look for things the way we all think of ourselves he had to be that way too again humans we all have varying levels of self-esteem during certain periods of our life and things that we go through that uh you know other people might think oh well he's successful he's powerful he's this or that but inside your own person it all that matters is the way you feel you know and I never thought I think I don't think Reagan ever got to the the point of where he wanted to go as an actor oh yeah you know he was relegated to beat movies You Know Jack Warner and like I said you know John Wayne that role was already taken right and um then you know he was married to Jane Wyman uh boy that's at that was ugly who was just coming up yeah as his career was going down going down and I mean she won an Academy Award you know like that and uh I myself was in kind of in a similar situation like that with with Meg you know my career was like that we met and hers kind of with like like like that you know and you know you could be you know generous with yourself or whatever or say that uh doesn't hit you somewhere in inside you but it does you're playing with with that and uh where you have this feeling like you were disappearing or whatever and so that's something I can understand about you know relate with him about and um you know his last job so he was doing like Vegas shows in uh yeah like cheesy comic Vegas shows you know to just to put food on the table it's a weird game Fame I think is Fame and Fortune is uh battery acid to the soul yeah you know because it plays weird games with you and if you don't if you don't know who you are um it takes time sometimes to to know who you are it does it does but I mean if you and if you but if you don't in your business even in my business you'll lose your way because you'll start you'll feel well am I slipping a little bit am I not and it's it just messes with your head and then you have to decide is it worth you going to do that you going to change you g to do that for that or you or you know who you are yeah and if you're like if you're a kid from Houston you know work at class you know parents there's not a whole lot of you know you really get raised to know what to do in those situations you have to kind of learn it yourself yeah I'm lucky enough to have been in those situations that I that I was in you know and also lucky enough to have gotten through a lot of those things but it was you know it was also when God closes the door and and he opens another one and it's I think with Reagan it was a really a lot of his life was based on finding God's purpose for his life I mean truly mhm and uh you know he became when you're when you're uh when acting starts to kind of like fade a lot of actors you know Ed Asner being one of them and several other you become president of the screen Act Guild right and that's was his entry into politics there mhm and he was fighting communist in the in that role as well because the Communist that was back during the McCarthy era they were trying to take over the unions right you covered this a bit in the in the movie and I've always heard that he was really torn on that he didn't like the going in and turning people having to give names but he didn't have a problem if they were Communists if they were a problem yeah and well his whole idea too about about communism uh whereas what think you know we're trying to root it out of our system and when he went to testified that he he testified with thing saying that you know you just allow communism in here because our system can handle it that's what the Amic American system is all about yes you know the freedom to to uh form a a political party isn't it weird that I mean when you you started you said I said why was he you're here because he won the Cold War and he did but isn't it weird that we are kind of back to where we were except the love of country that he had and all of that seems to be fading in popular culture communism is on the rise inside uh our country as well as all around the world uh and it seems like we have to fight it all over again it's it's well I think that's America and I think it's happened time and time again in fact you know right off the bat it was uh after we formed as a country you know there was the Whiskey Rebellion that that Washington had to go put down then we had the War of 1812 then we had you know Westward Expansion and what was going to be a a slave state or a free state civil war solved that one then we went into another thing you know with so are you an optimist you feel like are I believe in the American people I do and uh you know it is sometimes a a big great experiment that sometimes doesn't you know goes flat I like Churchill when he said uh trust the American people you you know uh they'll get it wrong but eventually right they'll figure it out and get it right get it right well the last time that you know the most similar times to today are I would say the 60s and 7s mhm you know that you know culminated uh you know the end of that was Ronald Reagan getting elected to office and that was a big experiment it was tumultuous would Reagan work today today yeah I think Reagan would work today yeah yeah yeah he definitely would work today but I think that's what people are yearning for really is a return to uh really kind of Common Sense uh and and decency I love the fact been watching his speeches uh for a while now and I just love the fact that he would always walk out and he'd be like Republican and Democrat walk into a bar and he he's not he's not tearing people down he's just telling us joke always opened I love that you know but we also back in the this time we had we had Liberal Republicans we had conservative Democrats yeah and uh I Pine for the Democrat of Joe liberman yeah yeah that was I love Jo that was like the last the closest we came is probably Joe Mansion uh recently Clos we came to that right and there's a I think there's a great distance between them but it is CL it's least recognizable I think the great hope for for you know that would be RFK tell you the truth as far as being able to reach cross party and or really not even be about party you know be about America and where we are and where we're going yeah I don't I don't agree with probably most of his ideas but I I you know we could have we can have a a conversation yeah and I I just had a conversation he called when I was on CNN he said that I should be tried for treason and executed and uh really yeah well and like I said don't agree with most of his ideas but I know I don't know the whole story on that one yeah uh but he but we had a great conversation you know had a great conversation yeah um and and he said yeah I've I've revise some of my viewpoints on some of these some of these things it's enough of struggle just to live our lives and try to keep tyranny at Bay day after day without also having to deal with pain on a regular basis if you're in constant pain um or just occasional really bad pain um you can be count You Can Count yourself out we need absolutely everybody in this fight you're here for a reason now the biggest cause of our pain is inflammation in our joints I know because I used to have it in my hands really badly I couldn't button my own shirts sometimes uh I'd have to get my my wife would get up in the morning and button my shirts I couldn't do that um what changed in my life was my wife insisted that I try relief factor I didn't think it would work for me well I got my life back you might get your life back as well there's only one way to know if you're living with aches and pain see for yourself how relief factor a daily drug-free supplement could help you live and feel better every day join the over 1 million people who have turned to Rel relief factor and uh and it starts feeling better in 3 weeks or less just visit relief factor.com call them at 8004 relief 800 the number4 relief save on your first order that's 800 the number4 relief relief factor.com um can I go into the the the downfall in your life for a while cuz I want to talk about what you're doing now with music and everything else and um I don't know how important is a real downfall to really finding yourself and God and having that deep connection um I don't think one should go looking for it right you know like we all wanted to be James Dean back then you know to have that an stuff but I don't think but I think it uh steals uh yourself as a person and I think that's where you you really find about What You're Made Of or and who you are uh in there maybe are some people that are lucky in life to to know who they are uh or whatever but uh you know I went through uh few periods of my life you know that were that's just a deepening yeah you know and sometimes feel it's like God's pruning and uh you know when I found myself in bad situations it was it was all my own fault so you I was all that stuff my mother said you know work out for but I found myself wait a minute you know so you get to a point of surrender you know I was back in the 70s and ' 80s I was you know I got into cocaine you know like back there Jerry Lee Lewis uh they culminated in Jerry Lee Lewis I mean cocaine when it came along in the 70s remember cover story of cocaine you know that was like they just discovered it or something and they were saying it was non-addictive and and all that you that all worked until John Belushi yeah but there are three there are three uh phases of that just like with any addiction really where it's fun then it's fun with problems and then it's it's just problem s you know and the rest of your life just doesn't work and uh you know I was you know I think I got to that point I guess I yeah I know I got to that point but I went into rehab like 1990 and I was I was lucky enough to get it the first time and get that out of my life good for you you know and uh that really began kind of a a second uh cuz the program that you go through uh with the addiction is a spiritual program that's what they say it's a spiritual problem then indeed it is because you're you're using whatever you're using or you know whatever your addiction is because to fill that hole inside you which works for quite a while yeah and then it until it doesn't you know and that uh you know that needs to be like an eternal thing in order to be a real thing right and that's what I I've read the Bible now like five times through different parts of my life and I got I got uh uh disillusioned with what I call churchianity I grew up at the Baptist Church and I got disillusioned with the churchianity back in the 70s and I read Herman Hessa Sara which opened Buddhism and to me and you know when I went around the world I as I I read the the Quran I read the dhap I read the bhab Gita and um then I came back and read the Bible again and when I got a rehab I did that and um I was really struck by the red words of Jesus which that was what really hit me more than any of the the other other books and I came to realize what a personal relationship with Jesus Jesus Christ is all about or started to know what that was all about because it is a relationship that that grows and that esbs you know according to the attention that's paid to it just like any other relationship yeah and uh but is always there and how real that is to me it's about a personal relationship and that is that is the thing that really runs through all religions I think is is the search for that right right I'm I'm an alcoholic I don't know if you know that but I'm an alcoholic and and our journey is very similar I think most people with addictions would say that but um and I didn't know what a personal relationship was like and there are times and it would always be this way if I were you know um always in the right place but they he is my absolute best friend yeah and and when you're in that space and you could when you're in that space anything can happen to you and you'll be like doesn't matter right doesn't matter I'm cool you got it a lot of people you know who are not Believers or or whatever uh it's hard to understand that it's always been hard for me to understand that too but you know because well that's a crutch or it's like it's some fairy tale about heaven or this or that but Jesus the way I the way I read it and feel it and experience it Jesus came in the red words of Jesus he came here to teach us about heaven afterwards but more importantly how to have heaven on Earth correct that was the main message in fact yeah was about how to experience heaven on Earth love God love yourself love your neighbor the Kingdom of Heaven is spread out upon the Earth and man cannot see it because you it's about looking Inward and it's about just asking yeah and you you know it's also incredibly simple it's exactly what it said you know but that's what I've come to know and cultivate you know everybody gets all wrapped up in sin and stuff like that and Jesus took away our sins I think what Jesus was actually saying to us is that we ourselves Just Like Heaven exists here on Earth and here's how to get to it but we live as we go along out of our kid phase and we live in hell inside of ourselves we either have guilts or the things that we should have or think we should have that really kind of tear us up inside and it was um Jesus came along and it's about giving up on that it's you know as much as being forgiven of of sin it's more about just throwing it away MH inside yourself I think that's the secret of Heaven is yeah being able to accept okay I did that but it doesn't it it's not it's in my past and it doesn't matter and I I know who I am and that doesn't mean necessarily it's going to be poof you tomorrow but you can't start to cultivate you can't start to cultivate a voice inside your head yes that um that will get you there I mean I I myself I I I experienced actually in the last um 8 years is you know what I I would say the equivalent of a of a of a kind of a nervous breakdown tell you the truth because I it was I was turning 60 which freaked me out but there were a lot of things going on in my life that I wasn't being authentic to myself you know I uh I think I was showing one thing to the world but you know I was inside wasn't a terrible person or anything but it was like uh just things in me that needed realignment yeah it needed realignment and I drew upon that personal relationship to to to get there and it's a voice that that in one's head you know the voice that tells you you're not good enough you you're not smart enough people don't like you you know the Saturday night life that that you know we all have that voice inside our head and sometimes that voice can take over and it keeps you from Yes it keeps you from being who you are and um and funny enough it you know along with Jesus was Yoko Ono who with who really kind of like gave me a little uh uh you get your you get your hippie card back tibit to to get out of it she said after John she just practiced she went 6 months she was a wreck and she just started like smiling at herself in the mirror or trying to and she didn't believe it for 6 months but it had actually turned into genuine and it's about really looking into yourself it really seeing yourself and nurturing yourself and um and wanting to I mean I know I looked at myself in a mirror for a long time and saying you're worthless you're you're you know you're weak how can this happen to you um and it my dad said start saying things that you want to believe about yourself and look yourself in the eye boy there's a long time you look well I heard from Yoko oh no yeah I didn't even like Yoko before tell you the truth you know the Beatles thing going way back there but you know it they realiz you know that you know happiness is a choice or that way I hate to say the word happiness because it's such a blanket thing but it's uh what can I say it's a feeling of wholeness inside the peace yeah feeling of authenticity and once you kind of like you know they say confess your sins or this or that what it is it's a throwing off of it and then you're free yeah you're free of all that and so that was you know that was a deepening and I feel that you know like I said God's pruning or you know I'm still enjoying lessons I thought you know by the time I got to be 60 or by the time I got to be 70 I would have you know figured figured it all out been through all those like phases of my life but then again I didn't realize that I never knew what it was like to be 16 I never knew what it was like to be 70 why would you have things figured out um I'm listening I'm listening to your um your album and it's amazing to hear I think there's a huge difference between you see the Johnny Cash movie yeah for sure so so remember the time when he walks into uh Sam Phillips uh studio and he gets the audition and he's playing and he's like I don't believe you I don't believe you you you have the same kind of um feeling I think that uh Johnny Cash had where um you can tell you earned that you know you can tell you can tell you mean that yeah you're talking about my gospel record I guess way yeah because that was that was very it was very personal yeah please don't give up on me it's is really in fact well the uh half the musicians that are on that record were Johnny Cash's last Studio band in fact yeah and uh but um um yeah it's it was very personal I know I know what you're talking about is they uh you can feel that it I I'd been through what I was right sing about turned out it was very obvious my my spiritual journey through life yeah is what it was so what's next on that on that uh what with music yeah um I'm kind of working on a kids record right now really yeah yeah there aren't enough of them anymore you know I think like what's a kids well like you know songs like uh does your chewing gum lose its flavor with a bed post overnight or remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and make up was a kid song come on you know and uh uh I got this song called The Jungle which is I wrote when I was 21 actually put on there and you know it's a little bit more secular but uh Kidsongs yeah there's a whole Market out there that nobody [Laughter] stops most self-defense situations can be handled with a gun but that doesn't mean they all should be handled with a gun I believe wholeheartedly in the Second Amendment I'm a gun owner I carry a gun but I also believe in the power of having options the best alternative is the Burna launcher I have it members of my family have it members of my team have it as well it's a great compliment to our Firearms there are situations where less lethal is the way to go and Burna is 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that you're yeah it seems like like before we went through it before there were actually leaders to the like leaders on our allies side and and on their side and on their side or even in the domestic situation you know you had uh leaders within that we had Martin Luther King you had X you had you had SDS leaders Abby Hoffman blah blah blah people kind of like spoke up for everybody in a sense you know and uh we're what it when it comes to like Islamic terrorism who's who speaks for that no I don't know yeah you know even black lives matter was like who are the leaders of that that were like upfront speaking for that right it just seemed like the movement you know and uh even all the this political correctness and uh and uh just where you know in that sense it it we there's some way to have a conversation about it instead of just this kind of which no wonder people are saying you know that the uh that there's a dark government you know the there but with fa you the faceless people that are are controlling everything yeah and you get the feeling that I I don't know but I also do feel that it's like I said it's a cycle that all of us are working out as individuals and as the American people and think the world feels right now like it's been turned upside down but I'm actually starting to see signs of it turning right by side up yeah Common Sense seems to be we lost it entirely for a while and it seems to be I think people are tired of supposedly having to hate their neighbor and people who vote I don't I don't care how you vote I really don't can we agree on some certain principles you know we don't right exactly I'm of the same yeah at least can we make like individual Liberty decisions oh yeah on our own instead of just taking right you know some mandate that's been P correct told that we have to it's mandatory that we have to think this way say these things and I'm talking about on both sides of really I know you know you feel like you can't cross that line or you're going to be right you know a traitor and uh what happened to the individual the rugged individual that that was the American ideal that you would look buddy I don't I don't agree with you on everything but good luck good luck and I I mean that sincerely and hey let's go have a beer or whatever right well tip O'Neal and Ronald Reagan did have that that that was one of the things they also had certain principles in common that was the main thing about Reagan is that he had principles in his life and he governed by those principles and if you have principles then it doesn't matter political party goes out the window correct because if you have those principles you're going to make an unpopular decision with whoever voted you in because it's the best thing to do for the whole and Reagan definitely had that going on that's how he won the Cold War it gives you patience too with other people and with for allowing something to unfold so how do we get back there I guess one little step at a time I think it starts at home in our relationships with our friends local community you know I it really got got to the point where people if you know you find out they're Democrats or you find they're Republicans you would just there's this just a label that goes up on them and you know mhm they're out they're out the door and on you know on both sides too you know we got to break that down we pass each other on the street every day we're in each other's shops you know we go to school with with people you know on the other side and you know then we find out there're either a democrat or republican or this or that and all of a sudden you know they're they're horrible people what's changed you know only us yes it's we have to look inside ourselves yeah really in order to find that are the churches doing their part I feel actually that um the churches are people who go to church are religiously minded have had was going down for so long ever since I guess you know the end of World War II and but I think it's coming back I think um I think co uh as horrible as Co was I think it was also in a way that's what a a spiritual Revolution looks like or a Revival is what it looks like because it forced people to get out of their routines that they were obsessed about and the way we lived brought them home the kids were home we were all together we had to like get through this together and there was a lot of death going on made you think about what's important what is important yeah you know and a lot of people go running to God when things are bad you know yeah that's okay that's fine too right right but uh um it uh it it it force you to look inwardly you know and uh that's I think we've I mean it's not full bloom yet but the seeds are planted yeah the seeds are planted I I really do think that MH I really do believe that I agree I have faith yeah that's where Reagan and I I guess have we're the same we're both actors and I think we both have a sunny disposition down at the bottom of it yeah yeah show you just a couple of Reagan things George Washington's glasses where right here yeah oh wow yeah this is what was held down at his side on Inauguration Day 1980 so he could uh yeah do his line yeah is that amazing it's kind of a combination of different errors actually yeah it is it's kind of like the very beginning of his presidency and it's also kind of a little bit of his Hollywood stuff too yeah yeah you have good time I'm good good you have a good time good as he began his song and sang the heartfelt words may God smile down on you I couldn't help but feel the strength of his faith and the warmth of his optimism friends don't mourn for the death of the mour in America sure it's shaping up to be a nasty day but like Reagan Dennis Quaid understands that Faith isn't a denial of reality it's the courage to face it with the god in whom we trust you are when you're pulling back a shade when you're kicking off your shoes at the end of the day when you just need someone to tell your troubles too I will be listening baby tell me everything just let go let your sweet s sing I will take care of you don't be afraid CU each and every night oh each and every night I pray let me on Wiest dreams come true May the light shine down on you may God bless your every breath may your wildest GRE come true be wild thiss come true and may God smile down you fantastic thank you